Irresistible Peanut Butter Cookies
This classic peanut butter cookie recipe is sure to please any time of the day.
Ingredients
- ½ cup shortening
- ¾ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1¾ cup flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Place foil sheets on your counter for cooling cookies.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together shortening, peanut butter, brown sugar, milk and vanilla. Beat at high speed until really well blended.
- Add the egg and mix until will the batter is really fluffy.
- In another bowl combine flour, salt and baking soda.
- On low speed, slowly add the dry ingredients, a little at a time, to the wet ingredients. Mix just until blended.
- Drop by heaping teaspoons onto an ungreased cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart.
- Using the tines of a fork, flatten each cookie slightly in a crisscross pattern.
- Bake for 7-8 minutes, or until cookies are set and just beginning to brown along the edges. DO NOT OVERBAKE.
- Cool for 2 minutes on the cookie sheet and then remove cookies to cool completely on the foil.